

EconTalk
EconTalk: Conversations for the Curious is an award-winning weekly podcast hosted by Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford's Hoover Institution. The eclectic guest list includes authors, doctors, psychologists, historians, philosophers, economists, and more. Learn how the health care system really works, the serenity that comes from humility, the challenge of interpreting data, how potato chips are made, what it's like to run an upscale Manhattan restaurant, what caused the 2008 financial crisis, the nature of consciousness, the conflicts and history of the Middle East, and more. EconTalk has been taking the Monday out of Mondays since 2006. All 1000+ episodes are available in the archive. Go to EconTalk.org for transcripts, related resources, and comments.
Episodes


Noah Smith on Worker Compensation, Co-determination, and Market Power

Rodney Brooks on Artificial Intelligence

Paul Bloom on Cruelty

Kevin McKenna on Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet Union, and In the First Circle

Yoram Hazony on the Virtue of Nationalism

Charlan Nemeth on In Defense of Troublemakers

Lilliana Mason on Uncivil Agreement

David Meltzer on the Doctor-Patient Relationship

Frank Dikotter on Mao's Great Famine

Alberto Alesina on Immigration and Redistribution

Teppo Felin on Blindness, Rationality, and Perception

Russ Roberts on the Information Revolution, Politics, Yeats, and Yelling

Patrick Deneen on Why Liberalism Failed

Arnold Kling on Morality, Culture, and Tribalism

Michael Pollan on Psychedelic Drugs and How to Change Your Mind

Richard Reinsch on the Enlightenment, Tradition, and Populism

Moises Velasquez-Manoff on Cows, Carbon Farming, and Climate Change

Janet Golden on Babies Made Us Modern

Iain McGilchrist on the Divided Brain and the Master and His Emissary
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